On noncommutative FGC rings

Abstract

Many studies have been conducted to characterize commutative rings whose finitely generated modules are direct sums of cyclic modules (called FGC rings), however, the characterization of noncommutative FGC rings is still an open problem, even for duo rings. We study FGC rings in some special cases, it is shown that a local Noetherian ring R is FGC if and only if R is a principal ideal ring if and only if R is a uniserial ring, and if these assertions hold R is a duo ring. We characterize Noetherian duo FGC rings. In fact, it is shown that a duo ring R is a Noetherian left FGC ring if and only if R is a Noetherian right FGC ring, if and only if R is a principal ideal ring.